Yes, it’s Xmas, but there’s still a Robert Fripp/Toyah Willcox Sunday Lunch performance
My wife and I differ on Christmas movies. She likes White Christmas, It’ a Wonderful Life, and The Bell’s of
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A holiday tradition: I helpfully deconstruct “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” [VIDEO]
Re-posting this video is turning out to be something of a Christmas tradition. Sorry if I ruin it for everyone
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The Real Story Behind The Pogues “Fairytale of New York”
One of the most beloved modern Christmas songs of all time is “Fairytale of New York” from the Pogues with a guest appearance from the late Kirsty MacColl–even though it’s really not about Christmas at all.
The song was born sometime in 1985 when Jem Finer, the Pogues’ banjo player, started messing about with an idea. He showed it to singer Shane McGowan who like it but didn’t really know what to do with it.
For the next two years, Jem and Shane struggled with the song. Coming up with the lyrics was especially difficult. The original idea was to tell the story of a sailor heading to distant seas, but that didn’t work. The song was abandoned.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 969: The 26th annual Christmas show
Let me explain myself. Over the last couple of decades, a growing number of radio stations have flipped to an
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David Byrne offers up a twisted song for the holidays
A Christmas song? Not really. A holiday song? Barely. At least it’s for charity. Let’s let David Byrne himself explain
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How about an Omicron-themed Christmas song?
The Omicron variant has buggered up so much these last few weeks including unaccountable Christmas gatherings. Steve Hardy felt that
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Please enjoy “A Very Lemmy Christmas”
Because everything goes better with Lemmy. (Via Adam)
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Weekly survey: If you had to pick from these Christmas gifts, which would you take?
It’s the solstice. After today, the days will start getting longer and less dark. It’s also the day of the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 904: The annual Christmas show
This year has been a raging dumpster fire. No, wait. It’s worse than that. It’s like someone gathered up millions
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Pornhub has released a Christmas album called–what else?—XXXmas.
Hand it to Pornhub to offer a sexual twist on the most wonderful time of the year. The company just
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Even grindcore bands can get into the Christmas spirit. See?
The Sound That Ends Creation is a solid grindcore band that seems scary 11 months of the year. But in
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